Iconoclast

Ideas That Have Shaped The Culture Wars

Mark Halloran

• Éditeur: Academica Press
• Année: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781680532685
• Sujet: Politique et relations internationales
• Sous-sujet: Politique

The culture wars are raging again. The term, which gained popular usage in the United States in the 1920s to describe the ideological divide between those with progressive versus conservative beliefs, now pits a coalition of conservatives and classical liberals against those who adhere to a far-left, postmodern ideology. Iconoclast: Ideas That Have Shaped the Culture Wars is an anthology of essays by, and interviews with, some of the world's most prominent public intellectuals on many of the social, cultural, philosophical, scientific, and political issues that have defined the culture wars of the last two decades. In an age of post-truth, the ideas expressed in this anthology will challenge many commonly held ideological beliefs. The modern culture wars are more than just a battle between the left and the right; they are a desperate struggle over which ideas are politically, socially, and morally acceptable – and who may express those ideas. It is a war over the definition of truth itself.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Iconoclasm: A Very Brief History of the Culture Wars
• On COVID19 and Times of Plague
• Postmodernism and the Failure of Moral Triage
• Me, She, He, They: Reality vs. Identity in the 21st Century
• On Free Speech Absolutism and the Deontological Pursuit of Truth
• Let Us Prey: On Islamic Immigration in Europe and Women’s Rights
• On DarkHorse, Ivermectin and Vaccine Hesitancy
• Black Politicized Lives Matter
• Making Evolutionary Sense of Sex and Gender
• Stories and Data: Reflections on Race, Riots, and Police
• In Defense of Free Speech
• Acknowledgments